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Anonymous
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You think the fucking Manship family is going to report on real news? If so, I hate to break the news to you but it will never ever happen. They whore themselves out for the Baton Rouge politicians and have for years. If the uptown bow-tie crowd thinks they are going to get news from the Advocate they are going to be just as disappointed as you are with this story.

Wait....what are you talking about?!? David Vitter wrote a letter to Newhouse that said the Manship family was going to hand them New Orleans' media market to them on a platter. You mean that's not happening?

The uncertainty in the media market is good and the Advocate will quickly realize that they need to add investigative reporting or their entry into this marketplace will be for naught. Conversely, if the Times Pic starts doing investigative stories in Baton Rouge it will pick up major market share against the Advocate who have let the rats roam freely around.

Baton Rouge readers have begged for good investigative journalism in the Capital City and now we have a fight for eyeballs on our hands which will pit traditional media, new traditional media, tv online media, and alternative news media sources all together to out scoop the other.

If the owners of the tv media sites were smart they would create one joint online website for all the news across the state. NBC Louisiana, Fox News Louisiana, etc. similiar to what is done in other media markets such as Northwest News.

The Times Picayune/States Item fights were legendary well now we have the next generation of media wars taking place but this time they are fighting over who wins the local internet news journalism war but the problem for both NOLA & the Advocate is that the online war has much more competition.

The New Orleans elite have only themselves to blame for the demise of the local print media because had they been active on issues that were important to the region they would have helped fight for good government and for a better business and educational climate. Instead they stuck their heads into the Times Picayune's society pages and sending their kids to Jesuit while the city, state, & region burned around them. Businesses left and continue to leave, their kids left, and now their newspaper left because they sat around and looked at their names in the society section while rome burned around them.

I'm sorry, anon at 11:42, but what the fuck are you talking about? Newhouse took a profitable paper and cut the newsroom staff in half because... people uptown read the society section and send their kids to Jesuit? What the hell kind of sense does that make?

The point was people were too busy reading about superficial issues while real issues were ignored. The real issues caused businesses to move out of the area. You lose businesses and you lose advertisers. The TP was a profitable enterprise until the 1st quarter of 2012 when its revenues shrunk by more than 50%.

People don't give a fuck about the educational system, government corruption, dysfunctional bureaucracy, and abject poverty in New Orleans they only cared about the superficial shit which is why the city continues to decline.

50 years ago New Orleans was bigger than Houston, Dallas, & Atlanta. We have fallen so low that now we are being compared to Mobile.